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Beltane Customs and Practices — Ravenhawks’ Magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul
Bringing in the May In old England, the young people went out into the woods on May Day Eve and stayed all night, returning in the morning, laden with flowers and green branches. The Puritan writer, Philip Stubbes, has an interesting way of explaining the nature of the sacred rites which took place in the […]
Beltane Customs and Practices — Ravenhawks’ Magazine Magick for Mind Body and Soul
Beltane — Ravenhawk’s Magickal Products
Magickal Gardens Beltane reminds us that warmer weather is just ahead, It is getting time for those of us in the North-Eastern section of the US to start thinking about gardening. even if you have no room to plant a garden, container gardens are possible. Some of the herbs that will grow readily indoors or…
Beltane — Ravenhawk’s Magickal Products
Beltane When to Celebrate-Ravenhawks’ Magazine Magick for mind body and soul
By Celtic reckoning, the actual Beltane celebration begins on sundown of the preceding day, April 30, because the Celts always figured their days …
Beltane When to Celebrate
Ostara Crafts — Ravenhawk’s Unique Magickal Products- Nisha Designs
Ostara Crafts for rituals and decorations: Ostara Crafts: Egg Dye Natural Dye Sources and Colors Ostara Crafts To make your own natural dyes you will need a generous fistful of herbs or plants that produce colored stains. Source /Color White Grapes /Pale Yellow Carrot Tops /Yellow Turmeric/ Yellow Vanilla Extract/ Yellow Orange Daffodil Blossoms /Yellow…
Ostara Crafts — Ravenhawk’s Unique Magickal Products
BELTANE BLESSING 2020-History- May Day- Nisha Designs-Ravenhawksmagazine
The word Beltane corresponds to the modern Irish Gaelic word Bealtaine, the name of the month of May, and to the Scottish Gaelic word Bealtuinn meaning May Day.
Other names For the Day and the celebrations are:
May 1: Rudemas/Roodmas, Rood Day (the Christian term for Rood Day), St. Walburga’s Day; Beltane, May Day, Cetsamhain (opposite Samhain), Cershamain, Fairy Day, Sacred Thorn Day, Old Beltane, Beltaine, Beltain, Baltane, Walpurgis Night, Floriala (Roman feast of flowers from April 29 to May 1), Walpurgisnacht (Germanic-feast of St. Walpurga), Thrimilce (Anglo-Saxon), Bloumaand (Old Dutch) This holiday like many of the sabbats start on the eve and is celebrated thru the following Day.
There is no consensus on how the name was derived at but it is agreed that this Sabbat honors fertility and creation.
This was also a time when many cultures light Balefires. In some places that is still an honored tradition.
Beltane is mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature, and it is associated with important events in Irish mythology. It marked the beginning of summer and was when cattle were driven out to the summer pastures. Rituals were performed to protect the cattle, crops, and people, and to encourage growth.
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